rack3 (rak)

[ rain-clouds. There a tempest hom toke on the torres hegh: A rak and a royde wynde rose in hor saile. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1984. The great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall di olve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. Shak., Tempest, iv. 1. 156. The cloudy rack slow journeying in the west. 4929 Succe ive Positions of a Horse in one Stride of the Rack. (After instantaneous photographs by Eadweard Muybridge.) The sisters turn the wheel, Empty the woolly rack , and fill the reel. Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 423. rack10 (rak), v. t. [Appar. first in pp. racked, rackt; Rackt wines-that is, wines cleansed and so purged that it may be and is drawne from the leese. Minsheu , 1617. Keats, Endymion, ii. rack11 (rak), n. [Partly by apheresis from ar rack; cf. Sp. raque, arrack, Turk. raqi, a spirituous drink, from the same ult. source: see ar rack.] 1. Same as arrack. As when acro the sky the driving rack of the rain-cloud Grows for a moment thin, and betrays the sun by its brightne . Long fellow , Miles Standish, ix. rack4 (rak), п. [Another spelling of wrack: see wrack1, n., and cf. rack3, from the same ult. source.] Same as wrack1: now used in the phrases to go to rack, to go to rack and ruin. We fell to talk largely of the want of some persons understanding to look after the busine , but all goes to rack. Pepys.